<quote who="Dan Winship"> > Seriously though, this "surprise announcement" stuff is exactly the sort > of behavior that the community despises when Novell[1] and Red Hat[2] do > it, and now we're doing it to ourselves???
So, when it's announced, you'll find that it's not at all like dumping lumps of code on the community without warning or participation. :-) > And if the secrecy isn't actually *necessary*, then WTF? I understand this reaction, but: Those paying attention will very likely know what it's about already, and that it has actually been mentioned in public already. The appearance of mystery [1] allows us to have an event, make a big announcement, and hopefully generate the kind of buzz and press coverage that we *very* rarely get the opportunity to exploit, given that all our work is done in public. I am particularly sensitive to the issues you've raised here, and they've been at the top of my mind working on this over the last 9 or so months. I am satisfied that it has been consultative (with a particular subset of the community), in line with GNOME's mission, acceptable to the Board (I am 100% responsible to the Board for doing this right), and not a subversion of the desired natural order of GNOME decision making [2]. We're announcing something "simply awesome" on Thursday. Sure, we could've just blogged about it, but that would be a terrible opportunity to waste! - Jeff [1] Good lord! But that's what it is, really. [2] Now that's a bizaare sentence. -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
